Artist: Doug Watkins
Doug Watkins was an American jazz double bassist. He was best known for being an accompanist to various hard bop artists in the Detroit area, including Donald Byrd and Jackie McLean.
An original member of The Jazz Messengers, Watkins later played in Horace Silver's quintet, and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, and Phil Woods among others.
Some of Watkins' best-known work can be heard, when as a 22-year-old, he appeared on the 1956 album Saxophone Colossus by tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with Max Roach and Tommy Flanagan.
When Charles Mingus briefly ventured over to the piano stool in 1961, he hired Watkins to take over the bass part - Oh Yeah and Tonight at Noon were the results.
Watkins recorded two albums as leader: Watkins at Large for Transition; and Soulnik for New Jazz. The latter, recorded in 1960, with Yusef Lateef, features Watkins on cello with Herman Wright backing him on bass. The cello was an instrument he had started to play only a few days before the recording session.
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Soulnik
Doug Watkins: Videos
More Of The Same (Remastered 2002)
Panonica